American Indian Women of Proud Nations

Cherry Maynor Beasley: is the Belk Endowed Chair in Rural and Minority Health at the Department of Nursing, The University of North Carolina at Pembroke. She has devoted most of her professional nursing career as a nursing provider, educator, and researcher within the greater Robeson County community. Mary Ann Jacobs is Associate Professor and Chair, American Indian Studies and Social Work, The University of North Carolina at Pembroke. She is the author of several peer-reviewed articles, book sections, and reports dealing with foster care, racial identity, Chicagos American Indian community, American Indian LGBT issues, child welfare policies for Indigenous children, and decolonizing methods. Ulrike Wiethaus is Professor of Religion and American Ethnic Studies at Wake Forest University. Her research and publication interests focus on the history of Christian spirituality with an emphasis on gender justice and political history, and most recently, historic trauma, religion, and the long-term impact of U.S. colonialism.

Contents: Cherry Maynor Beasley: Foreword as Story: I Am Not the Problem Ulrike Wiethaus: Introduction Ulrike Wiethaus: Introduction to Part One Malinda Maynor Lowery: Lumbee Indian Women: Historical Change and Cultural Adaptation Rosemary White Shield: Healing Responses to Historical Trauma: Native Womens Perspectives Mary Ann Jacobs: Southeastern American Indians, Segregation, and Historical Trauma Theory Rene T. Grounds/Eva Marie Garroutte: American Indian Language Revitalization as Lived Experience Cherry Maynor Beasley: Narrative Hermeneutics and the Experiential Transformation of Care Ulrike Wiethaus: Introduction to Part Two Olivia Oxendine: The Elder Teachers Project: Finding Promise in the Past Rosemary White Shield: Oshki Giizhigad (The New Day): Native Education Resurgence in Traditional Worldviews and Educational Practice Christy M. Buchanan/S. Grace Bobbitt: Parenting for Adolescent Well-Being in American Indian Communities Rose Stremlau/Jane Haladay: Honoring Women in the American Indian Studies Classroom.